Quentin Dupieux wild new comedy is a weird and funny romp about five super heroes called The Tobacco Force. After a devastating battle against a diabolical giant turtle, the they are sent on a mandatory week-long retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
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This fun new film is a merry mash-up of sisterly affection, kung-fu action, and Bollywood splendor. A martial artist-in-training believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
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Sarah Polley’s moving film stars Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, and Claire Foy as members of a group of women in an isolated religious colony. They struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
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Joaquin Phoenix stars in Ari Aster’s bold new film as a paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. The series of events on his journey are absurd, traumatic, but oddly funny in one of A24’s most daring new releases.
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Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid play a privileged 1950s Connecticut couple in this modern melodramatic masterpiece that is another ode to All That Heaven Allows. Amidst the racial tensions and anti-gay rhetoric of the 1950s, scandal erupts and the couple’s marriage fractures.
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This watermark of 1970s German New Wave films is a tribute to All That Heaven Allows — and remains moving and relevant almost 50 years after its release. When a lonely working class widow enters a whirlwind bi-racial romance with a younger man, they face backlash from both of their families.
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Social classes collide in Douglas Sirk’s visually stunning technicolor drama. When a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener (Rock Hudson), she faces disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
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Kirk Douglas stars as a ruthless film producer clawing his way to the top of Hollywood. Told in flashback form, he is seen through the eyes of various acquaintances and people he’s wronged — including a talented writer, a fabulous movie star, and a rising director.
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In Hitchcock’s gripping early thriller, Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps
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Hitchcock’s less often screened psychological crime thriller is one of his most experimental pieces with long, action packed shots and minimal editing. Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
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